I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

She may be dressed in black from head to toe, but she is still the brightest thing in my universe.

That said the conspirators: Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance — toward yourself!

Never forget what you were saved from.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.