My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Use your power gently.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow