The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

It's when we're inches apart and not speaking or touching each other that I feel that we are miles apart.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.