We make our own destiny.

I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

I felt dead and sick inside.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.