Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.