Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

Life is good - we forget that.

To do a Bond picture is a blessing but also a curse.

If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

She could not leave him hanging like this. “If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.

American diversity rarely applies to money and success.

Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure.Jan Jansen

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.