Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.

Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid it will never begin.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.