Paul Horgan

Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.