As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.

The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake waterA woman's shriek assaults the earWhile above, in the sky, inured to everything, The moon looks on with a mindless leer("The Unknown Lady")

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on 'The Biggest Loser' because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don't realize it.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.