I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
Deny that lack has any place or reality in your thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little, and insist that it is constantly growing larger.
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.
Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.
Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.