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. I want to be held. I ….

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..

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power..

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a singl….

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm….

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken..

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world..

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leavi….

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written..

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the hous….

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself..

Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now,….

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

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door..

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 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….