We are uniting in condemning the comments of Donald Trump on Muslims and women.

I want to send a message that we value our Muslim communities.

It would be helpful if everybody would focus on getting the right outcome from Brexit. An aggressive stand by the EU will only feed into those who promote the narrative of "better off out".

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

Accept who you are

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.