Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

Not one word of the following is true

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.