Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously.

I'm holding a super-expandable energy-powered towel. I've made friends with space hamsters. I think we've stretched believability rather far, don't you?

Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

Hillary Clinton's not going to do anything.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.