In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.

Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.