#special reason

“My children put up with me. They are well aware of my peculiar ways. Thank heavens they haven’t caught my dreary outlook. For them, I am a cautionary tale. They look at me and say, ‘The hell with it. I’m not going to live that way.’ Good for them. I’ll tell you the one extreme pleasure I admit to—praising them. My children are actually perfect.”

“I constantly marvel at how grown-up my children are, how grown-up they’re being about this. I worry about parenting at this sort of distance, but they are being so generous and so cool about it that – I mean, it might be because they’re English, and they won’t reveal their psychological damage until they’re in their late forties.”

"Perhaps that's my problem – where is the struggle? There has been no struggle. Where's the passion of my life? Where is its purpose? [...]-His achievement isn't the money, the transatlantic fame or the awards. It's that he has come to embody the quality of integrity – not just in playing Gregory House, but in his musical obsession, his self-questioning, his restless intelligence, his battle against feeling a failure. And he finally managed to supply an answer to his early question.- "What's my purpose? Having children, that's my purpose. I am eternally in my children's debt. They stop me thinking about other stuff." Hugh Laurie