The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

The effect of overworking

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.

The world isn’t waiting for you. It doesn’t even know that you're alive. But it needs you, and it won’t know about you until and unless you get yourself out there.

There is already enough wars in this world. Love was not meant to be one of them, Save the ammunition.

Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.