What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.