I've never particularly liked bankers.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.