I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

Hell, I think there were studies that said fucking was good for your heart. Laughing is good for your heart too and there are no downsides to it. I think I’d rather watch a comedy. Fair enough, but yo...

He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

He began on the hidden hooks to her bodice as she stood still, her breasts rising and falling tremblingly beneath his fingers. It was like undressing a wild animal. Or an angel who had consented to st...

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles...

Don’t you want to know my name? he asked, grabbing the ketchup bottle without taking his eyes off of me. Sure. What’s your name? You don’t sound genuinely interested. I’m not begging if that’s what yo...

Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

Cooper’s dark eyes studied my face then he smiled. I really am crazy about you. Let me make it up to you. What about Nick? I asked, daring him to freak out again. His jaw twitching, Cooper shrugged. H...

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her...

Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Its been enough enjoying now, let's begin achieving.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.