Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I will not talk to journalists about anything that does not concern my work as a scientist or lecturer.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Wow. I am really pretentious.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

Whenever anyone puts decor or artwork on the walls, it's always personal. You want people to come into your home and see something that reflects your personality.

My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels and he's complaining (on TV) about how I'm stepping over the line. I can't even do a No. 2 in peace. I'm sitting there grunting at 12:30 at night. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?