Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.