If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

There should be choice in healthcare.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.