To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

We're in this together usually means I'm here for you, unless it requires me getting into my car anywhere near rush hour.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.