Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.

There was a time when He was not.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.