Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.