I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

Love always hurts, Always. It’s what you do with it that makes it durable.

Ian cleared his throat. "Lady Elizabeth." He reached behind him and handed her a single red rose. "A rose... for the bonniest lass who ever graced the Highlands.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.