The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

Maybe you’re not so bad after all.’He leant across the seat, jabbing his finger in the air. ‘If you tell anyone, I’ll deny it. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.