All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!