A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.