Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today.

Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear a uniqueness in the author's voice.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

If you make every game a life and death proposition youre going to have problems. For one thing youll be dead a lot.

Ah, 'The Departed' is really good.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Class clowns become actors.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.