I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!

I love you like the devil loves his pitchfork. I love you like the angel loves his wings. I love you from here to heaven, through hell and back again.

What is needful is necessary.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

He though does not always have faith.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.