It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

Everything is going to be fine.” I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.

There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

AIM BIG, THINK DEEP, WORK HARD, YOU WIN!

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Age affects how people experience time.

Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.