It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.