I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.