He paused and manufactured a chuckle.

Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

The bright the light is, the darker the shadows are.

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.