The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

You can't beat a nice glass of Chardonnay after a really long, hard day.

I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

I'm far from perfect, but I don't think I'm ugly.

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

I'd really like to find out if the queen burps or trumps.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

I talk too much when I'm nervous.

I'm a car freak, I never usually have one for more than a year before I change it.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Every so often i'd wake up when his arms clenched around me, his embrace so tight i thought he'd cut off my circulation, holding me as if even in his sleep he was haunted by the fear of losing me.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

All German women are beautiful.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.