Sebastian Faulks quotes

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it. (Sebastian Faulks)

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Sebastian Faulks

There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

Sebastian Faulks

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

Sebastian Faulks

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Sebastian Faulks

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Sebastian Faulks

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Sebastian Faulks

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

Sebastian Faulks

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.

Sebastian Faulks

Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be. (Sebastian Faulks)

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

Sebastian Faulks

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

Sebastian Faulks

You put your time where your priority is.

Sebastian Faulks

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

Sebastian Faulks

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Sebastian Faulks

This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded.

Sebastian Faulks

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Sebastian Faulks

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

Sebastian Faulks

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

Sebastian Faulks

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial. (Sebastian Faulks)