Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

Sometimes life isn’t what we want, it’s what we get.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation

I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right?

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

A lot depends on the starting point.

I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?