Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

Home is everything you can walk to.

In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.

If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?