Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.