You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.

In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many

The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do.

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.