And I looked, ' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book, ' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.