If you took everything I’d ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you’d get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

Why me?” I secreted into her ear.“You were the only one I saw, ” she whispered back, making my heart burst.

Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.

Carlyle! Not just another nameless entity.

Do not deceive yourself

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.