TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.
How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.
I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.
I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.