Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

We just had a near-life experience!

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

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

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.