Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

What do you think you're doing?

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

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.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

Envy is human nature.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.