They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.