An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

There is no possible idea, " Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

We move forward by having confidence within ourselves, with hope for a greater purpose.

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.