Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Only human can learn from others’ mistakes, and one who doesn’t, ceases to become a human.

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second

TV is all new to me because I came from features.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.