Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That’s what my cousin said and she has loads of boyfriends and snogging-type experiences.

The Holy One is a flame.

We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind’s exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will, which people refer to as memory of the heart.

Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.

I call the right axe Sorrow, " she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.