生活
"History is not just facts and dates; it’s the lives of people who lived them."
"The stories we tell ourselves shape the world we live in."
"Sometimes the most ordinary lives hold the most extraordinary stories."
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
"Reading is a way of living more lives than the one we have."
"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."
Every story has an ending, but in life, every ending is just a new beginning.
A writer’s life is a life of interruptions.
The facts of life are very simple, but the stories we tell about them are very complicated.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
"I couldn’t be in a play because plays are not real life and they are full of people doing things that don’t make sense."
"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
When you are young, you think that the world is a place where you can live as you choose. But as you get older, you realize that the world is a place where you have to live as you must.
We live in time—it holds us and moulds us—but I’ve never felt I understood it very well.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
Writing is a way of fighting against the absurdity of life.