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

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

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

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.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

Despite the rain, it's still raining here at Old Trafford.

Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.