I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.