One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

All sports are games of inches.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

That's what poems are for, unlivable love.