Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

She’d never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted.

We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

Intuition is what you know before you think.

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

Give me my sin again.