Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

What good were real feelings anyway?

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it...

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

I thank God for His infinite blessings.

The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.

I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

Competence was attractive.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.