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 that is why a dog can go to the vet and have a really big operation and have metal pins sticking out of its leg but if it sees a cat it forgets that it has pins sticking out of its leg and chases...
And people are different from animals because they can have pictures on the screens in their heads of things which they are not looking at. They can have pictures of someone in another room. Or they c...
And it was strange because he was calling, Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ? and I could see my name written out as he was saying it. Often I can see what someone is saying written out like it is...
And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep an...
I took the little radio from the kitchen and I went and sat in the spare room and I tuned it halfway between two stations so that all I could hear was white noise and I turned the volume up really lou...
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
—Bueno, ¿cómo te va, capitán?Y yo dije:—Me va muy bien, gracias —que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir.
Sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
This is how we leave the world,with the heart weeping,and the hope that distancebrings the solving wonderof one last clear viewbefore that long sleepabout the weather's changes
Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question.
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal,...
And it was exactly like having flu that time because I wanted it to stop, like you can just pull the plug of a computer out of the wall if it crashes, because I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn'...
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
Time is only the relationship between the different things changing
The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words meta (which means from one place to another) and ferein (which means to carry), and it is when y...
I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people.