The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn ju….

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown..

The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform..

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do..

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected..

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between..

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so th….

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one'….

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body..

When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was ….

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to….

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weig….

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world..

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world..

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together t….

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness..

People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but ….

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge..

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall..

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate..