Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

You always have an option to opt between, 'You will always remember' and 'You will never forget'.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1.

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.