A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.

A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them.

Law merely indicated the sickness

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.