He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.