I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I...

Where’s your dog?” Peter’s voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard.”Pardon?””Your dog.””Yes?””Isn’t he with you today?” Justin looked at Peter.”Ha bloody ha.” Peter stuck his head out...

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against...

I’m sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I’d take it back if I could but I can’t, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I...

If you haven’t been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time...

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you....

In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasionally quite astonishing...

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I...

Every war has it’s turning points, and every person too.

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

But I would like to make an important point before thisgoes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting mefor corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is thatEdmond was not...

Someday I’ll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

Time erodes us all.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able...

Look, I say. You can’t just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they’ll connect with something. It’s absurd.No, it’s not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin....

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape...

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn’t one I’ve heard about.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel...

How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

I hate you, I thought, I hate you with your bloody nature-boy airs and your bloody forced-march voyage of bloody discovery. I wondered then if Finn’s personality worked on everyone, or whether I had just...

We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be...

She frowned at him. ‘You are in love with solitude.”Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

I’ve noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn’t really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If...

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that’s how I live now.

I’ve noticed that the magic of getting along with someone isn’t really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react....