A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

WORSHIP IS ACTION.""Worship is not lazy, boring and sad.Worship is zealous, famous and joyful.

Don’t sabotage yourchance for happiness.Own up to the real choicesyou are making.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.