If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

I think God has plans for everyone, and I'm just thankful this is his plan for me.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.