...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

Everyone's got a different story.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.