There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

To see the beauty, love

If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.

It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

Without me there could be no everybody.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.