Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

I can't watch my movies and get into them because as soon as I see myself I get taken out of the film.

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.