“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”

“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to ...”

“A real relationship is two-way.”

“Its the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. Its the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He know...”

“Theres no such thing as ruining your life. Lifes a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias.”

“Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”