As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

Writing is a great love of mine.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.