“Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.”

“Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.”

“Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.”

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

“How can you give up the world? Just do what you ought to do, and it will give you up.”

“I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.”

“In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood”