When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.

Love yourself and that is all the love you need.

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

Walking in the nature is a reincarnation!

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free