Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

You trust him?" he said. "No, " said Hastur. "Right, " said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and after every scoop. Then it just rolls off.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.