These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

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.

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

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

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

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

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.