“Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.”

“I was not jealous of his intelligence — he is entirely superficial, which is why he never knows what to look like. Or what music to make. Or whether to be a boy or a girl.”

“I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.”

“You speak very good English for an American.”

“I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people'sglass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”

“And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.”

“I am 13 years old, I am 13 stone, I have no money, no friends, and boys throw gravel at me. It's my birthday, and I went to bed at 7.15pm.”