But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie, când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine, când ne pierdemtu în mine şi eu în tine, Abia atuncieu sunt euşi tu eşti tu.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

The first purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life.

If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

I'm not saying I know everything about love. I'm still trying to figure out girls... I don't think we'll ever totally figure out girls.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.