There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.