I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Corporate humans would be regarded as a cancerous growth on the Earth by nature.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.