By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge,

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.