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Quotes by English Authors
"They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me."
"When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again."
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."
"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
"I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on."
"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
"But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot."
"Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN."
"I have friends who read my books in Greek."
"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."
"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."
"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."
"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."
"From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us."
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."
"I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations."
"I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway."
"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."
"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."
"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."
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