Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.