Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

What do you think you're doing?

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

This is your brain on magic.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not, ’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.