Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

Clearly it is God's will to place me in such a predicament, " declared Philias loudly to a procession of stunned passers-by, "So God can jolly well point me towards salvation.

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

The stream is always purer at its source.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.