“Learning is rebellion....Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.”

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

“Writing this now, God, how I miss the cultural side of the eighties - the rhetoric, the raggedy clothes, the politics, gigs you were frightened to go into, Radio 1 when it had weird bits, Channel 4 when it was radical, the NME when it had writers, and the thrill of discovering underground music and new comedy for yourself.”

“To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.”