What keeps me going is my children.

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 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.

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.

May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

Love is based on imagination.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.