I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Stories are a different kind of true.

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.