Alan Quotes

You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.

Less rules, more intuition.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

I invented the historical spy novel.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

Men die but an idea does not.

England still will be here without you.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.