The quiet people just do their work.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance

The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

I like Manchester, Birmingham. I really find this place very nice. Loved Australia. I thought that was awesome.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!