Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.