She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

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.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.