Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

I will not let them harm you. I will protect you 'till my last breath.

Each man act according to his faith.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.

I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.