Golf always makes me so damned angry.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

We always need a reason to live, and we pretend to have it.

Once you cross the threshold of 30 plus years of marriage you soon realize that what use to be two is now merging into one.

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.