Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter.

Is it really worth dying for the person you lo

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

If we say that no one's out there And we say we're goin' nowhere And we avoid the question Is this all that it means?

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

I think that it’s not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else’s, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it’s really not that.

It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.