It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.