Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.

If we wish to have a beautiful, peaceful and safe home, we need healthy expanding roots that go deep into the ground. These roots are our Routine, our Stability, our Structure.

Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.