I kiss [her] even though I know that if you kiss a girl before you are married to her you might get AIDS.

People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").

It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.