The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Das Glück ist nicht in den Dingen, die wir besitzen, sondern in den Dingen, die zu besitzen wir glauben.

Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire?

After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.