The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Thank you for giving me another chance.""Thank you for deserving one.

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

Live constructively and live optimistically.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.