I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Dance is medicine. Movement is potent. Empower yourself with it today.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.