It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.