Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.