The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

My toe as a lethal weapon!

Play Quidditch at all?”“No, ” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch cou

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much (inaudible).

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.