Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.