Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

You put your time where your priority is.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

There was too much at stake for him not to attempt it! He had to win! And he had to win big!

The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts!

I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

Did your great-grandfather have any children?

Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.