I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Start every day by making a list of all the experiences you will fill your day with and make an effort.

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.