When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

Don't they understand what fiction is?

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.

Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask"Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Never say never. At least with working out I'm proving you don't need to. If I have three chins at 75 I'm not saying I wouldn't get rid of them, but who knows. Generally, I'd leave it alone.

Give me coffee! I'm going to write!

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.