The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman'. I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?""To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool."Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.

I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.