I try asking him some more questions, but it's like talking to voice mail.

He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.

Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

With courage, you can overcome the cultural shock in a visit to a new country.

What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.