Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.