I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

I think writers are very anxious.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.

Victory was close. Just one final push. "Send in the rest, " I ordered. "All wings attack. Take that base down now.

Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.