God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny.

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He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

AMAZING GRACE is about the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.