Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

Refine

Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

Your friendship is better than chocolate! Well, anyway, it's right up there.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.