“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”

“It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.”

“Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.”

“What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts.”

“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”

“Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.”

“Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.”

“Why do we believe one stranger and not another?”

“But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?”