The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.