Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.
I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.
If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.
For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.
What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.
