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.

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

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.

Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?

There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

The midwife of history is violence.

You have to remember, eight out of 10 businesses in America, they file their business as individuals, as people.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.