The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

What is luck but something made to run out.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

While you live, the revolution lives