There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.

Now you are the helper of this victim, tomorrow the victim will be the killer and you will be the victim.

Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

The work has to have room to breathe.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.