But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That’s why they become politicians.
There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.
I love writing different things.
I’m not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
I don’t think my father was a bad man, all in all.
The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.
For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?
Nice day for a funeral.
When are you at your most defenseless?
My perfect reader doesn’t just read – he or she devours books.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you’re dealing with something that doesn’t really exist.
She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn’t quite possible.
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
Then why don’t you go and – – yourself.
Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.
It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. – Dr. Grief.
Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.