I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn´t count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way. Because most people are good people, aren´t they? Most people want to help others, and if their work doesn´t allow them to help others then they do it however they can- by manning the phones at the Samaritans once a month, or going on sponsored walks, or filling in standing orders. It's no good me telling you that I'm a doctor, because I'm only a doctor during weekdays. I've been sleeping with someone other than my husband outside working hours- I'm not so bad that I'd do it inside working hours- and at the moment, being a doctor can´t make up for that, however many rectar boils I look at.

-Nick Hornby. How to be good.