Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to m...
I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some othe...
He said, 'are you telling the truth?'I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and t...
And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes building...
Because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
A rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet u...
Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.
I find people confusing.This is for two main reasons.The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of di...
Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can’t see the desert because it is not a thing.
And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.
And it means that sometimes thing are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules.
You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a...
I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the...
I like when it rains hard.It sounds like white noise everywhere,which is like silence but not empty.
And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. and so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except t...
