No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence.

We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.

You’re my home, Susanna. My home, my heart, my dearest love. Wherever you are, that’s where I belong. Always.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.""Why not? Because I'm a woman?""No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.