I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do….

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be..

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously..

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear..

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense..

The proper study of Mankind is Everything..

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived..

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wantin….

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small on….

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged..

I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group who would run away very fast if they sa….

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them..

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit..

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste..

But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I….

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pea….

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it wo….

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narra….

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another..

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin..

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together..