What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

The dark is light enough.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever were lost in look as much like home as we can.

Comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

I need you now, I need you tomorrow, I need you every single second Please don't leave, unless you never cared..

Farewell God knows when we shall meet again.

Creative thinking in terms of idea creativity is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show. I think one of the things that helped its mystique is, it never came out on DVD or video or whatever.

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I'm just really supportive of everyone - even though I believe that things should be equal, people have different circumstances in their life that have taught them to be who they are. Even if I don't agree with them, I don't judge them. I'm a really non-judgmental person.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Jim Rohn

I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.