The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

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.

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.