Andrew Miller Quotes

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Sometimes the heart demands.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Control is an advertising concept.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.