It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

You put your time where your priority is.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

I would never attack somebody only because they belong to a different party.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.