Guilt is the toothache of the soul.

When you fall in love with someone you treasure their quirks as much as anything else. Flaws become unique marks of character, things you'd miss if they weren't there.

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

You have to live a life to become a writer.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.