I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.

Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.