Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

I am my world.

After all, I was once like you are, but being the right sort I got where I am.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.