When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom

Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

Trust, faith,good, bad... none of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your disires, fulfill your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.