You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Everything happens for a reason.

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

One is only as good as one is useful.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.

I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad I’m hurting I can push through anything

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.