"I believe in hailstorms, rainbows, forked lightning splitting the night sky, sleight-of-hand magic tricks, fever dreams, gravestone poems, cheap beer, expensive shiraz, birdsong, wishful thinking, and Neapolitan ice cream for the young. I believe in welfare, taxes, death, fate, chance, destiny, happenstance, dumb luck, talking, smelling, seeing, touching, hearing, listening, belonging, holding on, letting go and letting rip. I believe white silk slips look good on anyone and i believe in love."