We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions