It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.