[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.
Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.