And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

The man was allergic to sleep.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.

Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same."Barking spiders, " she muttered softly,

It's not about knowing the key to success, but knowing how to use it and which doors to open

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Making movies is like herding cats.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.