So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.