Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.