Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

Love means knowing when to let go.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.