When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

My father used to say that it’s not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they’ll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)

I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.