As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

He held a beautiful bouquet of mixed wildflowers and offered them to her. "They missed you." He brushed a kiss on her lips. "Just like me.

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

I'd like to say I took the news well.The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.--Percy Jackson

Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.