As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.

I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

Every word you’ve ever said, is written somewhere in my mind.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Microcredit is about giving hope.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.