If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

It's important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water.

...Things happenedwhen you were little. Things youdon't remember now, and don't wantto. But they need to escape, need to worm their way outof that dark place in your brainwhere you keep them stashed.

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.