Love cannot be measured by its duration.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.