My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Until you have a life filled with questions, you never get your answers.

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

Love. When it's real you'll know. No questions asked, no answers needed.

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.