I had the constitution of a missionary.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

I played my age. Not bad.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.