You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

Santa will be showing up with Rudolph the Red-Eyed Reindeer.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.