That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I'm awkward around girls.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

Mother was, ' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.

My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.

I've rarely met a shoe I didn't like.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

In service, there is clarity and compassion.

A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.