Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.
I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.
It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits. . . Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.
The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow. It seemed like. . . it expected me to do something. Maybe my mind was completley gone, because there was only one thing I could thing of right now that might satisfy it. I reached up en awkwardly patted the side of its head, since that was al i could reach. "Nice puppy," I whispered, and passed out.