If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

Each loved one went silently down

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.