Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!

Happiness is an inner perception. It comes from simplicity, kindness, love, and compassion.

Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face.

when the presence is like thunderstorm, the absence prevail deep dark silence.

If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.