I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough ….

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this….

Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared t….

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes….

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor..

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light po….

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose..

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people..

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind..

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul..

The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they….

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!.

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement..

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that..

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down..

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no….

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home..

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the….

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places..

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run..

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen..