My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was real….
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence..
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean..
It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law..
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in hi….
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, leg….
I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house..
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length..
terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not l….
Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the H….
Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy ….
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections..
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free..
Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... ….
I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours..
I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servant….
I wanted to give the house back to the parents..
Have you ever thought about registering as a sex offender just so your friends won't bring their kids over to your house?.
As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program tha….
Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; b….
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses..