Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.