Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.-Bono

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!

I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.

You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.