Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

You Change, the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.

Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.