Don't Believe Everything You Hear

She'd Thought Love Had Something To Do With Happiness, But It Turned Out They Were Not Even Vaguely Related. Love Was Closer To A Need, No Different From The Need To Eat, To Breathe.

She Liked Things That Had Been Written By People Who Had Lived Short, Ugly, And Tragic Lives. Or, Who At Least, Were English.

... People Made The Imaginary Real All The Time: Taking The Music They Heard In Their Head And Recording It, Seeing A House In Their Imagination And Building It. Fantasy Was Always Only A Reality Waiting To Be Switched On.

Gold Don't Come Off. What's Good Stays Good No Matter How Much Of A Beating It Takes.

I Have Nothing To Say For Myself, Only That I Have Always Tried To Make This Earth A Little Bit Better