He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!
The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.
I am not what I once was. [Lat. , Non sum qualis eram. ]
Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.
Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.