I know I play with danger every time I swim, but I need this. I’m Mer and the ocean is mine.

I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.

Bullying is wrong. It is not okay to bully others back because they bullied you.We learned our lesson with Don the Goat

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.