Marriage Is The Gold Standard Of All

As An Arts Journalist In London, Working Mainly For The Bbc, I Interviewed Hundreds If Not Thousands Of Authors. From Them I Gleaned A Great Deal Of Passing Instruction In Writing And I Observed One Fascinating Detail: No Two Writers Approach Their Work - Physically - In The Same Way.

I Never Met A Librarian Worth His Or Her Salt Who Didn't Perceive My Passion For Books.

The One Joy That Has Kept Me Going Through Life Has Been The Fact That Stories Unite Us. To See You As You Listen To Me Now, As You Have Always Listened To Me, Is To Know This: What I Can Believe, You Can Believe. And The Way We All See Our Story-not Just As Irish People But As Flesh And Blood Individuals And Not The Way People Tell Us To See It-that's What We Own, No Matter Who We Are And Where We Come From.

For A Startling Period Of My Life, I Reported The Troubles In Ireland For The Bbc. I Lived In Dublin And Was Called Out To All Sorts Of Incidents That, If Taken Together, Add Up To A War - Bombings, Assassinations, Riots, Shootings, Robberies, Jailbreaks, Kidnappings, And Sieges.

Marriage Is Very Important. Marrying A Girl Is The Most Important Thing A Man Can Do. Never Mind Business Or Politics Or Sport Or Any Of That, There's Nothing So Vital To The World As A Man Marrying A Woman. That's Where We Get Our Children From, That's How The Human Race Goes Forward. And If It's Too Late For Children, There's The Companionship Of A Safe And Trusted Person.