I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

With the discipline of the body comes discipline of the soul.

The dogs brought it all back to, you know, to the human side.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.