Sebastian Faulks

“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind,…

— Sebastian Faulks

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

— Sebastian Faulks

“No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“She was so beautiful I had to move away.”

— Sebastian Faulks

I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a…

— Sebastian Faulks

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

— Sebastian Faulks

“The more I heard, the less I knew.”

— Sebastian Faulks

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when…

— Sebastian Faulks

“With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a…

— Sebastian Faulks

“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

“Time makes us pointless.”

— Sebastian Faulks

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I…

— Sebastian Faulks

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that…

— Sebastian Faulks

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

— Sebastian Faulks

“...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last free from the…

— Sebastian Faulks

“How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage…

— Sebastian Faulks

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

— Sebastian Faulks

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

If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

— Sebastian Faulks

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

— Sebastian Faulks

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says…

— Sebastian Faulks

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things…

— Sebastian Faulks

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

— Sebastian Faulks

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

“This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.”

— Sebastian Faulks