The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

I prefer music that invents a universe.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.