I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.