He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.