Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

I needed to get out and my roomies had both left me for the night so I followed the pretty one here.” Did Marcus just call me pretty?

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.