A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

To find true love simply one must just adore.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.