You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.