Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.