Too often we seek justice for just us.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

Never fool yourself, success will not come by accident – it must be deliberately planned for. If opportunities don’t come on their own, they too must be created or attracted.

The moment when you think that you are the loneliest person in the world, you close your eyes and feel, it is much better this way.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.