Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.