Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.