We don't know who we are until we see what we can do..

Before you hate something you should try to understand it..

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this….

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradu….

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks..

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories..

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big..

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance..

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous….

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are..

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its descriptio….

Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little….

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to..

Writing is an antisocial act..

Talking's just a nervous habit..

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers..

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good word….

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion..