Learn To Trust Your Instincts. Only Something

And So We Stayed Out In The Garden Of The Old House Until We Couldn't Kick A Ball, Laughing In The Gathering Twilight, Making The Most Of The Good Weather And All The Days That Were Left, Our Little Game Watched Only By Next Door's Cat, And Every Star In The Heavens.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

Tattoos Are So Widespread, So Ugly And So Very, Very Permanent. You Can, In Theory, Have Them Removed - But A Large Chunk Of Your Living Flesh Will Go With It.

The British - Who Rarely Start A Fight, But Always Know How To Finish It - Have Nothing To Be Ashamed Of.

A Tattoo Doesn't Make You Look Like An Individual.