Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

Holiness was always something richly dim.

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

Humph, ' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' (“The Bogey Man”)

If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.