Occupation: Author Birth: December 27, 1934
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't..
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise..
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally con….
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is..
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confessi….
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well..
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?.
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists..
The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case ….
I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very intere….
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope..
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own..
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the s….
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. ….
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way the….
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There ar….
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it..
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing..
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay..
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you..
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable..