Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

Feel free to bugger off and die at any time.’ Dan scowled.

Thoughts can creep up on you, or they can hit harder than a wrecking ball.

The sky was a blanket of grey, tarmac-coloured clouds with no hint of the blue beyond them.

Books and knowledge don’t make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.

You bring me bliss, my rainbow child.

Politics gets nastier and more vicious with each passing year. It’s not a parade of ideals or ethics any more. It’s about celebrity, false promises and image.

But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don’t need it. And so hard to find when you do.

Whoever came up with the saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ was talking out of his or her armpit.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you’d do things differently. We both know that you wouldn’t change a thing.