In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out wh….

When success finds you, it's because you were looking for it..

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you..

When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and ….

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed….

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd..

Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis).….

I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre..

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve..

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will..

Nature is not anthropomorphic..

None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, ….

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late..

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they ….

Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod).

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

All right," I managed to say, just before I crumpled to the floor. "Let's see what you've got..

There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any need for….

What you see is so much less than what you get..

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't..