All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Anything is possible if you just believe. But if you want to start believing, start with yourself.

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.