I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

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.

Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows.

Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.