The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Faith is to believe in something when common sense tells you not to and situation surrounding you says otherwise.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

My biggest struggles have been my biggest teachers.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.