The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love..

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations werent very high. A publis….

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be..

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God..

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy;….

I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to….

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting….

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now a….

The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better i….

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one..

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I really liked it best when I was a nobody..

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway..

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always….

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of ….

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to ….

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel..

I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want….

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCar….

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written..