It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence..

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a bett….

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dign….

I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do ….

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did no….

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which ….

She was not a poet. She was a poem..

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense..