They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.