I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

One of the best roads to self-improvement is acceptance of personal mistakes and correcting them as soon as possible.

Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.

It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’