I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout my lifetime.

the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.

God of miracles.God of wonders.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

I can memorize great swathes of dialogue!

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.