It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!

The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.