I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I have found that when you GENUINELY love what you do, time isn’t a factor. As a matter of fact, time doesn’t even exist.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing, " Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message." Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.