We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away, ” Nyx said.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

Control your life through insanity.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.