I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Home is where your teapots are.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldnt be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

I like music of almost any kind - including this.

Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?