You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder, " which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

call out if you need a hand. if she looks like she's going to have you, i'll sneak up behind her and whach her on the head with a stiff rabbit

I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.