I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.”

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.

Make a life while making a living.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

[Donald] Trump's business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.