I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

I don't even have a stalker. I'm just not the guy that people stalk.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.