Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.