I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Life is all about discovery

We were never meant for a wimpy life.

You can't stop a man from stopping himself.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.