My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Never judge a journey by the distance.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.

Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.