It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been. —Enid Healy

Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

Everything you desire is always justoutside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn’t you would alreadypossess it, would you not?

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.