I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.

We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

If Sasha’s threatened, Astrid’s upset. If Astrid’s upset, I’m going to kill whatever’s upsetting her until she’s happy again. (Zarek)