The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.