The wider we read the freer we become.

Why is the measure of love loss?

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

The word of God warns us of every scheme of wickedness.

The chaos around you is none of your business: your business is how you feel about it.

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it