A little bump in the road is just a bump. There's more ahead until you reach your destination.

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.

I don't kill myself. I can't live like that.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.