Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

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

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.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War

What's well begun is half done.

Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.