There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.

God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.