We are the slaves of slaves

We read to know that we are not alone.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

You see, " I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.