1. “Anyone who has spent few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn’t care all that much if you live or die.”
2. “Open your eyes and see what you an with them before they close forever.”
3. “It’s embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
4. Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
5. “A real diamond is never perfect.”
6. “My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.”
7. “To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”
8. “For me writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking imagining and dreaming.”
9. “Gold and diamonds are nice but clean crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.”
10. “You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.”
