Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.
To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.
I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.
Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.