The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone...

Sometimes what we don't wish for is more powerful than what we do.

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.