Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.