The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation

Poe, come on. Don't be like this." She avoided his gaze, and that was killing him. He'd rather she yell at him than give him nothing at all.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

I am not a philosopher.

I just love fiction. I love it.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.