Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip.

Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.

There is nothing to encourage. The Iranians should just stay away from us.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

People believe what they see.