Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.

Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.

His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.