The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

If it works, it's true.