My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.

According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.