Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

Love begins with listening.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.