I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams

It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Security isn't having things, it's handling things.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.

If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench.