My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder, " which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

So long as I'm the president, we will. I clearly see the challenge. I see the challenge of what these threats pose to our homeland, and I see the challenge of what these threats pose to the world.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Tennis has given me soul.

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

She loved you in the morning because the day was new.