I'm also the father of three beautiful children and I've been married to my wife for 18 years, and we've been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.