The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you..

I do to others what they do to me, only worse..

I am commanded therefore I am..

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum wa….

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing that I wanted when I grew up was to be….

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia..

Who was that?” I whispered, as if the walls could hear me. They were lined with pictures, a few of which I recognized as being painted by master pain….

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

Fear is the biggest motivator..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And th….

Whether you like it or not, the definition of family has changed. We have same-sex marriages now. We have more people who live together and have chil….

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that befo….