I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.