Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.