Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

I want to hear one more of your storiesTangle up in your dreams, give up the fight‘Pour one more glass of that wineAnd I might not go home tonight...

Another fine mess you've got us in Stanley.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.