Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.