“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

“It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.”

“The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.”

“Great," I said. "Another conference call. I havegot to start blocking your number.”

“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.”

“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

“God, grant us men to see in a small thing principles which are common things both small and great.”
Deus, dona hominibus videre in parvo communes notitias rerum parvarum atque magnarum.

“I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.”