Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

The biggest reason people don't do things is knowledge. Many people don't go to the gym because they don't know what the heck they're doing.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Death is a law not a punishment.

The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

But dinner is dinner a meal at which not so much to eat it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older as to drink to talk to flirt to discuss to rejoice at the closing of the day. I do not think anything serious should be done after it as nothing should before breakfast.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and also tried rugby and cricket, and triathlon didn't really become part of my life until I was 16 or 17 - but it was the sport I enjoyed most.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Everyone's really sweet, really nice. The 'Buffy' fans always ask me to do Kendra's lines in Kendra's accent.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.