Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

I would never say snog. I would say osculate.” She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Are we making a bomb?" "This is a trust exercise, like in drama, " she says. "Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?

Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.

The ocean is six miles deep.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

…reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity.

for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above groundfor burned mermaids and sick vampire girlsfor wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.