There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

We're not mad. We're inhabited

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.