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

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

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

You do not change anything, only need to make difference.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know.

I do not separate France from Europe.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.