That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Just like a Led Zeppelin album stands up today, we hope our album stands up in 10 or 20 years.

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.