Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Here's the thing about luck you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Books may well be the only true magic.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.