At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

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.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Only in the present do things happen.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.