Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

The roots of shame run deep.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

No action is safe from meaning.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Don’t try to lie to your heart because one day, it’ll eat you up - Marina

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.