“My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.”

“My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.”

“Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.”

“My life is ruled by four Ws: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.”

“Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.”

“A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong ...”

“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of...”

“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.”

“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It d...”

“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. ...”

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

“We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us”

“God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose”