Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday lif….

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too d….

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have ….

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted..

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue..

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil..

The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and….

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living….

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there..

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had..

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In ….

This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene..

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as….

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision..

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it..

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it..

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relati….

In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart wa….

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The a….

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading you….