I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.