Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.