Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Death is the ultimate negative.

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

Be the change you want to see in your networks

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.