It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

When we see only what we want to see in the Bible, it loses all power to transform us.

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.