I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. (Substitutions)
Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun...
You can’t have made-up things in made-up stories. But in real life, you can.
When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as...
Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes—God.
One of life’s dreariest truths, my dear, is that something once wonderful can come to seem … ordinary.
In the beginning was the word. So what do you do when the words won’t come? When you don’t know what happens next? You just keep typing.
Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Sometimes it’s just a huge pain in the arse,
I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of m...
How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resent...
When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunne...
What?’ ‘Wherever there are good people,’ he said, ‘there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn’t want to follow where you’re leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream...
What they are is a small tablet about six inches square, which has a screen in it. As you walk it shows a scrolling digital map of the area you’re in, telling you what each store you pass sells, who l...
Erik left the church and walked back out through the streets. The people coursing through them did not frighten him any more because he realized their movements and the sound of their thousand voices...
Are you okay?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.’ ‘Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.
All non-smokers seem to live in the belief that smokers have wandered naively through life, bereft of the knowledge that their habit is extremely bad for them.
We all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well,
She lost her fury. He’d had none. That’s how you win, in the end.
I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.
Parents hear those words more often than anyone, and always from those they love the most. Families are the crucibles that temper the toughest of love's swords. It gets intense in there sometimes. You...