Youngsters deserve no opinions.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.