I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

Personality is a strategy devised by a child. Our true, original self lies under our personality, in the transpersonal ground of our being, at our core.

But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.“She still works pretty good.” Deire maintained. “Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that’s just a dodgy plasma injector.

There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

I think we all have had better days in competition.

It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.

We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.