In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.

I'm always challenged by someone.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.