How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.

In any situation you have the choice to stay positive and embrace it with courage, faith, and hope.

Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.