I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
Don't hustle old people.
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
The Thames is liquid history.
I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.