A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to make sure you make it in the right place. It also depends on time commitment; a lot of directors will make a pilot, but a series is just a whole other level of involvement.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.