Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.