If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.

Hope is a beautiful and magical thing. Grasp it tight, monsieur, and never let go.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

Hey, come on, I've seen younger faces on money. Money.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.