A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.

The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

You got your resolutions... We just got reservations.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.