I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark.

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

All that I am my mother made me.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.