I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

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.

It is better to be redeemed than to be rich.

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Something is monitoring the planet. And they are monitoring it very cautiously.

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had