Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself.

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

I would like to do some musicals.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.