When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Prayer:  The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously.

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.