One doesn’t question a miracle.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

The joy of reading is grace of renewal of mind.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists

The government is concerned about the population explosion and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.