Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

What do you think you're doing?

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

This is your brain on magic.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.

The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody