The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for was as swift a death as the one Massetti had so thanklessly received.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

You'll always be two steps behind me.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.