What else is belief but direction?

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.