Every accepted public quote

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”

“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So...”

“A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So H...”

“I go to The Brit School, which is where Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Jessie J went.”

“The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at a...”

“If God made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment.”

“Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things...”

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were...”

“I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to...”

“You could do a lot worse.”

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be im...”

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”

“The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.”

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”

“I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality t...”

“I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.”

“The only victory over love is flight.”

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.”

“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”

“I just keep surprising myself, I guess.”

“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.”

“If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.”

“To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”

“Invisible things are the only realities.”

“Bullying is overlooked in the worst way. Why do our children have to struggle to fly because the bullies think they have the ability to clip their wings?”

“Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to...”

“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”

“Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.”

“Human nature is all alike.”

“'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'”

“Success is the best revenge.”

“The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, p...”

“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the labora...”

“Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.”

“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”

“I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.”

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just ho...”

“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.”

“I will always continue to work hard, become stronger, and learn to love myself for who I am, imperfections and all.”