I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

I love getting my feet massaged.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.

When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.