Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

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.

Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

I am very much into the paranormal.

When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.