Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life

Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

Besides, Mrs. Quesnt, did it never occur to you that we are not changing at all-that rather, we are simply becoming more ourselves?

Don’t depend on the thoughts

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.