Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.