Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.