"Age has a good mind and sorry shanks."

“In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.”

“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2004). “7 Books in 1: The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, The Would-Be-Goods”, p.44, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

“Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.”

“For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.”

“Nothing important is completely explicable.”

“I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.”

“The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.”

“What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women - who are not what most would consider conventionally attractive, but who exude such a magnetism about them that people are compelled to watch them on stage or screen.”