I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.