Quotes from John Larkin

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.

You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.

A train full of shadows. Of living ghosts. On a journey to nowhere.

People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.

In the dead hour the ghosts creep out of the bush and go howling across the dunes, screaming their unfinished business to the night. But I'm nothing to them so they ignore me.

I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.

Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.

Despite the post-it note with her phone number on it, shes already little more than a fading memory. They all are.

Fortunately...or unfortunately...through years of neglect I'm actually as skinny as an anorexic broomstick.

Creepo just smiles, like a python at a cornered rat.

He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.

Death comes to all of us in the end.

The touch of being part of something greater. Something magnificent. That it's not just me against the world.

I'm alive. I'm safe. And life's a gift. Okay the gift sucks a bit at the moment, sort of like getting a pair of oversized pyjamas for Christmas when what you really wanted was an iPod, but I need to make every moment count.

People are basically good.

Step lightly upon the earth, but leave a little ray of hope.

There is no fate. Whatever I do from this point on is down to me. I choose my own path. Write my own story.