The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.

When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Im from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Everyone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.