Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown