Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

Suffering has a noble purpose.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

What you do for money you do badly.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.