Every place there's people, there's badness.

Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.