Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.

The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

You can be happy where you are.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

It's okay. You aren't my type. What's your type? Someone who gets into less trouble.

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...