I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“And when I die all the memories of my own life will go to the grave with me, God willing, and Dick… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Names came patterning into the dusk, bodying out the places of their forebears, the villages and towns where the telegrams would be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it? — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it? — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Under the treaty of Sevres in 1920 Greece had been given Smyrna, and by 1922 the Greek army was trying to push its way… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer’s billiard table.” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Stephen watched the packets of lives with their memories and loves go spinning and vomiting into the ground. Death had no meaning, but still… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
