A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?

When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.

There's no getting rid of you. You are already in my bloodstream and woven into the marrow of my bones.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don't understand.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.