I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

If you look at creation the way it is, it is explosively beautiful.

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.