The roots of shame run deep.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

No action is safe from meaning.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.