I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.