What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

We are all qualified to fellowship with God no matter our situation or condition

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

If your business isn’t optimised for mobile, it might as well be invisible. Mobile isn’t going to be a medium. It’s going to be the medium.

It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.

Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. I became sort of aware. I used to get so angry.

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.