How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

with each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.

You see the bird and you see its flight.You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Television is a service, but it's also a business.