All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

I am not the #Prisoner of my #Past neither the #Slave for my #Future !!

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

My hatred is diamond-hard.

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

Women are not attracted to men who are good looking - they are attracted to men who are attractive.