And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told myself that it didn't matter. I was too happy to care.

Too long, much too long.

I'm your other half. (...) I'll carry your heartbeat in mine.

I am going to give you my heart now, " I whispered. "Please don't break it again.

If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.

I don't say this to hurt you, love." The endearment slipped out without me even thinking about it.(...)"Say it again, " he said. "Call me your love.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Pursuits become habits.