The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

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.

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.