Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Guilt: it comes in so many subtle forms. It's carbon monoxide for the soul.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Mastery does not exist.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.