People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.

Also, serial killers, child killers, they’re hot, they’re the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody’s favourite spook monster.

There’s nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

The world is chock-full of monsters.

I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.

Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.

If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.