I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.