What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself.

Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I'm getting ready to change a lot of opinions about me.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.