Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

These are the days that try man's heart.