Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

Surround yourself with family and treasure your time together. Family aren’t always blood. They’re the people in your life who want you in theirs

To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you’re also non-threatening and slightly useless.

When the kingdom leaves the church, the church stops living for herself

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now." Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.