What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

I—though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the girl's shoe and the glove compartment—was my usual dignified self.

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.