He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

A true healer helps you to remember and reconnect consciously with your inner light.

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.