I've always known... I'll die alone.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

Be open to ideas and thoughts you disagree with. It will unleash a debate in your mind and soul.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.