The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

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.

They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you.

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.

She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.

I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.