No man is an island.

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.