We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.