There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.