When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

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.

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

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

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.

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 don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

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

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

Winning without honor, is worse than a resounding defeat.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

If you really want to be lonely, get married.

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.