I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

never would have said forever if i knew it wouldnt last

The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity.