I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.