You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?