Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.

Tony, Tony, come around, something's lost that can't be found.

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.