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Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

He loved the strange privacy of being different.

I read them all, read them one by one with a kind of constant hunger as if they were apples that fed and made you hungry at the same time.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

My father revisited Moby a lot. Maybe it's because there's no other novel in the whole world that better captures the Impossible Standard.

My hope has a small h.

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.

Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow, T.S. Eliot said,

Chapter 19 Where are you, Aeney? You slip away from me as you always did. Where are you?

was open the windows. It could be

But if there's one sure way not to forget something it's to say Forget That.

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

When you're different you've got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

Chapter 12 Your blood is a river. Chapter

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.

The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations.

Some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven't seen them,

People are odd creations, this is my theme.