I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Bear your pain or it will come back

TRUST"'A soft thread, that could broken while checking it

In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be.

Hi my name is Brian, but uh, you can call me 'B-Rok'. Cuz, I be rockin' your house!

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.