We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn’t know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.