They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.