Soon Equates To Good, Later To Worse,

I Still Have Some Of My Old University Essays, And I Do Still Have My Drawing Book From Primary Year Seven.

There's An Old Sysan Saying That The Soup Of Life Is Salty Enough Without Adding Tears To It.

...and I Confess That, Like A Child, I Cry. Ah, Self-pity; I Think We Are At Our Most Honest And Sincere When We Feel Sorry For Ourselves.

I Just Took [my Cancer Diagnosis] As Bad Luck, Basically. It Did Strike Me Almost Immediately, My Atheist Sort Of Thing Kicked In And I Thought "ha, If I Was A God-botherer, I'd Be Thinking, Why Me God? What Have I Done To Deserve This?" And I Thought At Least I'm Free Of That, At Least I Can Simply Treat It As Bad Luck And Get On With It.

One Of The Advantages Of Having Laws Is The Pleasure One May Take In Breaking Them.