Necessity, thou mother of the world!
She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.
Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.
Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.
London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.
There could never be innocence in a world without justice.
I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.
And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.