I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

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.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Love is not like Ice, that melts but the foundation of Respect, Love and Care

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.