When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.