That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

I’m aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don’t owe any explanation to anyone.

Is the werewolf community so afraid of one little half human?

Loving yourself is the first step towards knowing what you would and wouldn't take from people - it determines not just the way people treat you but the relationships you keep in the first place

Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

But let the good prevail.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.