You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

When the inspiration comes, let everything else go!

I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.

Teach us to care and not to care

I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.