Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

I love 'Empire' - it's my favorite of the 'Star Wars' series.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

To me the term "sexual feedom" meant freedom from having sex.

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