Mary, we met in a pub. As you weren’t banging a tambourine, I understand you weren’t selling the word of God.

Not one of the boys like me. I’ve put their noses out of joint.”“Well, they were never good-looking lads.

Jim slept deeply, lulled by the rhythmic rumble of the purring Pye.

Grown tall, like a ruddy weed, on his food.

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.

The hall erupted into punches, blows, and kicks. The dancing ended but the band played on. The older men escorted the women from the premises and so ended a bloody-good night.

Quotes are just words, meaning is created by mind.

Make a time to enjoy, to celebrate the life that's given to you by God.

Be gentle and humble in heart.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.