"Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst."
"And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin."
15 likes
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Alan Ball
"As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job."
"I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour."
"Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable."
"Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same."
"We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore."