Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.

There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

It’s the fall of mankind that resulted in a sin filled atmosphere

Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

Put not your trust in princes.

Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.

A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.

Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.