A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

[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.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.

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.