Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you're scared, do something.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

Because our love is more than something I can wear. Our time is far greater than what can be counted by two hands and some numbers. Because, even without it, I still have you.

One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn’t the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.