he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean.

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

The results are in great need greater ambition.

When God calls you to an extraordinary task, He provides extraordinary resources.

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.