“How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.” — 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
I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.” — 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
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
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
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the… — 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
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
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted… — 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
“...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last free from the… — 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
“I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents… — 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
