Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?