I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

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

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