At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Wherever you are - be all there.

When you go to the mountains you see them and you admire them. In a sense they give you a challenge and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

When I go into 'You're the Worst,' I'm very glammed up, and my hair and makeup is va-va-voom. Now what I'm having fun with in 'Grease' is, honestly, I go to rehearsals with zero makeup. When I get pimples, I get excited about it, like 'Yay! It helps the character!' The frumpier and uglier and grosser, the better with Jan.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

There are no crown princes at Ford.

The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.

It doubles your perception to write from the point of view of someone youre not.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.