By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.

The bitter heart eats its owner.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.