I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

Getting even is one reason for writing.

Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions