Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

I love everything about the Christmas season.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

f you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you’re over 40 you’re actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you’ll do it again.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.