"I'm telling you stories. Trust me."

"He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes."

"They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that …"

"If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it."

"Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the brid…"

"The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests."

"My heart returns to me what I turn away. I am my own master but not always master of myself."

"But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that."

"Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one."

"In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession w…"