It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.
The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
I grew up in a town without fathers.
A book is not completed till it's read.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
I am not a consecutive writer.
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.
Writing novels is the most exciting.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
