There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.