The world is chock-full of monsters.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.

Also, serial killers, child killers, they’re hot, they’re the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody’s favourite spook monster.

There’s nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Sexual underwear is tacky.

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.