Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?