"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"I'm not interested in writing about happy people. Happy people are boring."

"I'm not a prophet. I'm just a writer with a good imagination."

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

"We are not always what we seem, and a good trick of the mind is to convince yourself that you are what you wish to be."