I Am All For Cracking Down On

The Most Convincing Argument Against Early Parenthood Is That You Are In A Relationship That Is Likely To Fall Apart Before That Child Grows Up.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

I Can't Think Of A Bigger Waste Of Police Time Than Chasing Somebody Who Has Said Something Offensive On Twitter.

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.

To Love Means To Realize There Is A Time To Let The Beloved One Go