Only your mother could find you attractive, and only your mother could love you.

Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God.

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Wake up this morning knowing that the possibility for love is closer.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.