I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

When she needs you, she knows how to find you, but when you need her, she’s too busy to be with you.

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

For months I had been trying to be less myself.

I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present.

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.