Dreams can be relentless tyrants.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

happy women get softer and rounder.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

I've just always loved animals.

If space suits looked less like marshmallows, I'd be more interested in going to the moon.

I'm dead sober. This is just me.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.