I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child's body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

In a great romance each person plays a part the other really likes.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.