OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.