When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.
He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough. ’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.
I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.