Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

The greatest health shall be happiness.

Have you tried reading the Holy Scripture?

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

You just gotta go after things you like.