Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

I cannot command winds and weather.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

You never can tell with bees.

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Imagine you are walking down a leafy path...The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny...seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly.

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.

In this world, only winter is certain

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.