Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

I will still be the girl with dreams, even the dreams come true

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

I buy way too many books.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they were assumed not to exist.