Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.
I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels.
Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.