There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

if it works it's obsolete

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.