What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

It seems you haven't really become a success until you have as many people as possible condemning you.

…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

Hope is the universal currency of a recession. Invest it wisely!

What we do have is nothin' but time. Welcome to the Shawshank Redemption of late night!

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.