When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

Everyone should follow his predetermined path.

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?""Can you do it with your left?

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love. And if I feel a rage I won't deny it. (I won't fear love.