The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you're scared, do something.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.