Black as night, sweet as sin.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

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.

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.