I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

Killing time is not an easy job.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.