Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

One of the pilots asked Mr. Smith if he liked his business, and Mr. Smith said, Sure. Sure I like it. It's nice being the only sound nut in a hatful of cracked ones. ---Stewardess to Cecelia Brady

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun.

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.