I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

Design is art that people use.

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

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