Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.)) about my book!

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.