It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

Future does not exist, live your day and build yours.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Emotionally I'm about 13.

I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.