Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

Whatever you have been praying and yearning for, you will soon be proof of it!

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur, ' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

A great politician has great charisma.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

I guess I like to find the rhythm in things.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.