History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

The second sweetest set of three words in English is "I don't know," and it is to R D Laing's credit that he uses it often.

...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha.

Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally mutilated rose garden. It was a mature tree standing maybe eight feet tall, producing lots of oranges. It was covered with fruit.

The nurse, the cook, and I stood at a kind of breathless attention watching her as she began to saw the trunk of the orange tree! Finally we heard a cracking, splintering sound and the orange tree toppled over into the stubby remains of the rose garden.