Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.