My secret friend, Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend, So we can swim forever.

Show up, shine and do the damn thing!

People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference.

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.