We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

I'll let life take me where it will.

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me.""Woof, " I said.

Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Kiss the blackest part of my behind.

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

A library is also a place where love begins.