I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!

I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone

I didn't feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?

My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.

I was trying to work out who I was.

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.