A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

I am an atheist.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

Want of pluck shows want of blood