I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.

Working gets in the way of living.

Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.