People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.

As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?

The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.

My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

Do you have a girlfriend?''No, ' I said quickly.Deny Honour again. Peter only denied Jesus three times. I must have denied Honour like three thousand times.

Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe?

9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.

It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself.

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.