On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

Jenny Eclair

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.

Henry David Thoreau

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Victoria Beckham

[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others. Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills. We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our new strengths in visual-spatial intelligence go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of deep processing that underpins mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.

Nicholas G. Carr

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Byron White

I believe life is an intelligent thing that things aren't random!

Steve Jobs

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Ben Stein

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.

H. G. Wells

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Confucius

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry