“Ive grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains good, potent female villain...”

“what are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?”

“Things might not be great, but things would be okay.”

“A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals wit...”

“I know a little bit about trying to do the right thing and fucking up completely." I added."You talking about mom?" Ben said"I was talking about me.""You could have been talking about all of us. Be...”

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“My life isnt theories and formulae. Its part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and Ive absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone from my mother, from traini...”

“There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesnt perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know thats not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.”

“On the one hand maybe Ive remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

“Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.”

“Am I making something worth while?Im not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making something w...”

“I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind...”