I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Nick Clegg

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Steve Wozniak

Family is more than blood

Cassandra Clare

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

J.K. Rowling

Don't remember what you can infer.

Harry Tennant

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jos

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there....

Will Rogers

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

Michael Hutchence

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Bob Woodward

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Jane Austen