How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

My God, don't shoot !

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.