Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Jump or stay in the boat.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

The best about cats is they love cannot feign...

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion