I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

No man can bear a child's cross.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried!

I'm being haunted, " she blurted out. "My dear, " he cooed. "Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

We sold 'Seinfeld' all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.