A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.