My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

To truly be successful you must of have a clear vision of what success means to you & then share that knowledge with others to grow a team ~bns~

An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.