He’d stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he’d wished to be that different man. He’d wished to be worthy of her.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

I just want to do cool stuff.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.