The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!