I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

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.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

Live to fight another day on better legislation.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.