We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector, " said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.“You?”“Great.”They’d trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.

She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained.

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

…believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.

Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.

Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

Our lives are cluttered by complexities and that leads to problems. Genius is the one solves simple problems which seem complicated.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.