It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending.

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?