I haven't got a writer's discipline.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

If we can't solve the problem, resolve the difference, then embrace the diversity, bring the silence, time will solve the problem and peace will prevail.

When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.

You can call me Patch. No really. Call me.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Contouring is like my favorite thing ever because you can get cheekbones even if you don't have them.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.