Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your appetite.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

If I don't keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute, ' I say, w

To be the love, dissolve into love.

Music is love.

Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Her mind is a haunted house.