66 quotes found
Author · British · 1964
British author (born 1964)
“Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.”
“Knowledge is currency here....”
“I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.”
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”
“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”
“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
“Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.”
“A named thing is a tamed thing.”
“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
“Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storytelle...”
“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankl...”
“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the”
“We didn’t see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn’t a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon – though I couldn’t tell you what abou...”
“The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.”
“For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.”
“The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.”
“Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine,...”
“I dreamt that I was old. And you – you were beside me.Forever young – in your hand, a cup of stars.”
“Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is”
