Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.