"When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won."
"On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?"
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Source: I think I'm sane by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.
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