It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.