Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.

You are hatching from the past.

The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.