Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.