The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. "Good-bye, " he said. "Georges-Jacques--study law. Law is a weapon.

I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.

The prose, ” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

When you give without expectation, you will always have more to give away.

I'd love to be a writer one day

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

No matter what it is, you're going to have the bad days, but if you have hope throughout, you won, no matter what the results, Life is so beautiful.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

When life kicks me, I kick it back.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.