Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

I don't talk about my friends behind their back.

I write constantly about everything.

I dont think I could do a superhero movie. Im just not really that type of guy.

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

But what is life if you don't live it?

Keep Patience, it is happening for you, somewhere.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.