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.

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

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

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

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.

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.

Your inner positive self demands that you keep surprising yourself with extraordinary achievements.

You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility.

Courage is how bad you want it.

What are you doing here " "Hiding with you

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.