Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!

We get one shot at this thing called life. Let's make it matter.

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

Changing people's habits is very expensive

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.