There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.