I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.