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

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.