Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.