A named thing is a tamed thing.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.