Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.