During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant of those lessons is that I still have many lessons to learn about out craft.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

Trust means that they will never throw our pain and vulnerabilities in our face. Trust means we know they will protect us and our innermost thoughts and shared feelings without question.

My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.

-Have a Glass of wine & over time it will be fine.

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

I'll be one of the Who's of Whoville.