I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Don't over-focus on the negatives and under-focus the positives in your life.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

You make me feel like the luckiest guy in the world

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.