But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one.

Here is some advice. If you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches .... Described by the author as "a comic book with pictures", rather than a second novel.

She thought of an article she had once seen on mind control. Apparently if there was a person fiendish enough to set about interfering with your life, the only thing you could do was to concentrate hard on someone they were unlikely ever to have heard of called Martin Amis. The particular blankness of this image was guaranteed to protect from any subtle force, but Gloria realised with a sinking heart that it was too late now.

Bask in it. In spite of what the monks say, you can meet God without getting up early. You can meet God lounging in the pew. The hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion.

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me.

He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes.

My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.