I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men-and people in general.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

What if she never remembers?" "Then you better make her fall in love with you, again." "How did I do it the first time?" "You let her in.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.