What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me through the military.