You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.

I know who I am, and that never changes.