Don’t aspire to be the next somebody else. Be proud and embrace being the first and only you!

One person's disapproval shouldn't make you quit. If it's your passion, a thousand people screaming 'No!' still won't stop you!

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

Virtue is its own revenge.