I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn