Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

I would never say snog. I would say osculate.” She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama, " she says. "Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?

Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.

The ocean is six miles deep.

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

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Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.