I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.