The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

We are the slaves of slaves

We read to know we're not alone.

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

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

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.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.