I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.
I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [. . . ].
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who?. . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!
And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.
There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.
There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.