When it comes to scary business, I believe that forewarned is forearmed.

The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.

In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber’s pole—like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops—is colored red and white.

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

I'm good at what I do.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.