A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

The path back home is often the most difficult journey of all.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.

Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you

What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.