While there is time, let's go out and do everything..

I cannot do politics under someone else's control..

If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the ….

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them..

Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-….

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere..

A lot of things just aren't true any more..

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm always challenged by someone..

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women..

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control..

Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are….

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them..

You and I are more than you and I because it's we..

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right..

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autob….

Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioni….

Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr..

Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades..

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does..

Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished..