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No time like the present
Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.
Old age makes caricatures of us all.
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
I've loved art for more than 30 years.
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
I do greatly admire Australian artists.
Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
Exclusive will not be published in book format.
The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.
I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.
The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.
however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.
The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?