You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

What if, when we are feeling less than happy, we were prescribed two genuinely inspiring experiences each day?

Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

The future is wider than vision and has no end.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.