If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.