Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It’s just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.