...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.