If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

What do you think you're doing?

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

This is your brain on magic.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

She kissed his chest. "Thanks for letting me into your heart." He tucked her hair behind her ear. "You walked in like you had a key.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Love everyone today as if today is the last day of your life.

Resentment’s appetite is never fulfilled.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.