At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Follow few. Lead many. Walk with some. Embrace all.

The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

Michael Price is the showrunner so nobody works harder than him.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

I think everybody should have dyslexia and ADD.

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.