Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine, " said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.