He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your appetite.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

If I don't keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute, ' I say, w

Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.