The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.

The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.