History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.