The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

Christianity is part of the law of England.

Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.