As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Unless you do this with an open heart, I don’t think anything will come of it.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.