The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.