I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.