The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Family is more important than anything.

I can't speak anymore, I open my mouth but nothing comes out. So many things to say. I wonder if you really want to hear it anyway?Instead, I leave my heavy mind exploding with unfinished thoughts.

Regret is a waste of time.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it.Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.

He can run, but he can't hide.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.