Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.
I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.