she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world

So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.

Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other? How had all the presence summed to disappearance?

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

Direct lies, small lies, huge lies, and lies of omission… these are all self-serving and sources of self-destruction.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

The best revenge in the world is success.

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.