When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I’m into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

Live fast, die young.

Target your random acts of kindness, to keep a tally of who owes what

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God, ' and the almond tree blossomed.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.