I always try to look for the best in most places.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes, ” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.

Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl."Underground, " he said. "My favorite p

One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.