I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.