“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

“As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.”

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”

“Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily … life is only ours on loan.”

“The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.”

“Why was it everything was always so goddam complicated? Even the simplest things was so goddam complicated when you come to doing them.”

“So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”

“Life is very, very complicated and so films should be allowed to be too.”

“I've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be so it's easier to remember who I am.”