My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

While most people love certain species to pieces (e.g. cats and dogs), others are more loved in pieces (e.g. cows and pigs)

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

I tell the most horrible jokes.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.