Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.
. . . there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.
Just fear me and love me. . . and do as I say. . . and I will be your slave.
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.