My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

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.

Too many irons, not enough fire.

Is the prospect of magic any more outrageous than a dragon train?

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

I don't go clubing. So, I don't smoke or drink.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

Last night we were the best team on the day.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.