There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Lo….

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle..

I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little ….

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not..

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now..

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage..

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing..

I don't believe in happy endings..

It is the nature of walls that they should fall..

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't….

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way..

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love.

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journe….

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood..

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people..

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Readin….

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkn….

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like peopl….

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the….

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't bel….

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting b….