I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

The great, like plants, do not curse storms for they are nourished by them.

I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life.

An angry person is always full of poison.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.