That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

She’d felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes.

The past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice

Disgust is so reassuring

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

Every life is precious.