One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the nation….

I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their v….

I think we are worlds compressed into human form..

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness..

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all..

I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-deco….

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time i….

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as goo….

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

To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split stra….

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language..

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself..

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was..

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending..

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..

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and par….

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that..

I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in….

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one re….

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear..

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same..