I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

I am doing enough to survive but it isn’t the same as living.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.