Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.

You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

Just two people in love.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

Life is difficult, easy, and wonderful. As you think, it is as such.

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

What you need to find is someone who never will let you go.

I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.