All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.