Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.