If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

People die when curiosity goes.

I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

I love to make things. If I have some free time and you have a dollar and a dream and you are making something funny and cool I'd love to be a part of it.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

I happen to live in reality. The name of my city is Literalville. And it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving