Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Stop searching for god in the farthest corners of the universe. He is in you. You are it

Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve.

We must be the world we want to create.

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.