The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

I hope this might be forever.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.