The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

I’m a nerdy, geeky fan of Labyrinth and Dark Crystal.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!