“I miss journalism an awful lot.”

“I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.”

“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”

“I think about toilets a lot, and how awful it must be to be a toilet.”

“Children are to be respected and I respect them deeply. They've taught me an awful lot.”

“There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.”

“It seemed like an awful lot of trouble just to be naked.”

“I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants — like House or Untitled Monument — things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them.”

“So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.”

“I was an English major. I studied a lot of English literature, so got interested in the literary magazine and was a contributing editor. That's the closest I got to journalism then, but I always hankered to get into news.”