The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Even before you start regretting it, it is already in the past.

@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.