Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

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.

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

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.

Hope has a way of casting shadows on the truth.

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.

Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

Anushka Sharma is a dear friend; as is Jacqueline Fernandez. They always stand by me for support when it’s needed