Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

Silence hung between them, and Maddy's heartbeat picked up. She probably should have played it cool, but why bother? She wanted him.

What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

I'm famous, so I can't, like, really walk around in malls and stuff like that. I don't really have as much privacy.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.