There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Everything you want in life is a relationship away.

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.

While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.