I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.

You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem, ’ I tell him.

Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls.

Tonight’s going to be one of those things that seem to last forever.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

I haven't stopped making music since I started at 16 and throughout the years I made a lot of different connections and had a lot of opportunities.

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.