If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way.

Open your mind to fill it with everything that is beautiful. Ignore the rest.

The innocent curiosity of children gives them astounding courage.

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.