Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.

I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die.

Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.