People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good...
I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your l...
And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid...
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their...
And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
He’d tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
I find people confusing.
That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
MiaowConsider me.I sit here like Tiberius,inscrutable and grand.I will let I dare notwait upon I wouldand bear the twanglingof your small guitarbecause you are my owland foster me with milk.Why wet my...
Metaphors are lies.
Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was right. Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said that she was...
I said that I wasn’t clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn’t clever. That was just being observant.
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head.
You love someone, you've got to let something go.