Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Writers are always anxious always on the run from the telephone from responsibilities from the distractions of the world.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers the financial crisis has proven this.

The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work.

Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

In my case, there's no revolving door... I won't be going back to government.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.