Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Hope will never be silent.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

What is dark within me, illumine.

I just feel exciting.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.