Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....

The pimple is perfect.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.