We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right?

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.