The way you’re smiling a little makes me think maybe you wouldn’t mind an older man.

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere.

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.