Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

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.

Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees, Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.

The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!