Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life, ’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave.

Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

Maybe love can kill better than hate.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.