I find it fascinating to see other people's photos on social media but I don't upload pictures myself. I don't even know how to. I'm completely digital-phobic.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. “I loved him. That’s what dumb girls do.”“You aren’t dumb.”I try to hold back my smile. “I’m hanging out with you, aren’t I?

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.