Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.