Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Truly, truly, the grace of God is never without any effect.

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth a wait, because waiting is the sign of true love....

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

It was duck apocalypse!

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

Immune system will heal itself.

In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.