The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

Wait around and wait around and pretty soon you won't be around

I cook all my meals at home.

A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.

We see which way the stream of time doth run.