"This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch."
- Johnny Rich
"Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate."
"Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth."
"The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we..."
"I stare out at the real world projected on the windows"
"His suffering was no more real than he was."
"Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins."
"For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are."
"It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them."
"You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge."