We'll have more football later. Meanwhile, here are the highlights from the Scottish Cup final.

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.

Love is not complicated—just smile, hug, kiss, be kind, and repeat.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

My characters come from a good place.