There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

And never resist a perfect moment.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.