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

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

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.

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.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

Gene, you wouldn’t know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.