Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 8, 1955
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. Y….
He needs to go rub his soul against life..
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily ….
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill..
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it..
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect..
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and the….
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking t….
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't..
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on..
Loose lips sink ships..
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven.
I don't look like who I am..
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind..
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost..
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business..
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose..
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side..
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of h….
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners.