Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.