Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

Never let something important become urgent

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

My heart is sick / and I didn’t make it out.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.