Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.

Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of “Take to the Sky, ” but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.

Kicks to the legs, they're not very cool. They're brutal.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.