Every pain is a lesson.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

Every pain is a lesson.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.