A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket.

Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.