If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe. There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

That low vice, curiosity!

"Happy" feels good... I just like when stuff feels good.