The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.