"Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for."

"What I am really here to talk about is the central thing, the core, the nucleus—life itself. I’m not here to talk about what we should do in life. There are many options as far that is concerned and, …"

"Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing …"

"It’s six months since I did the interview with Jeremy Paxman that inspired this book, and British media today is awash with halfhearted condemnations of my observation that voting is pointless and my …"

"I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."