Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

I'd love to direct again.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.