Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

We live and breathe words.

Caress me sister wind and stop this hate.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.

I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

If you don't believe in yourself ! then no one else will !

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.