Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's clean streets and walks.

The word is the beginning and silence the end. Between word and silence, we exist.

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]"My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.