Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

Sometimes I felt so alone that I wish there were a bigger, longer word for alone. I tried to tell Grandma about this feeling, about my suspicion that life was nicking away pieces of me.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Opportunity is the greatest charity.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.