Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.

I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

Love is freedom. The freedom to express the most joyous part of Who You Are. The part that knows that you are One with everything and everyone.

Good givers are great getters.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

I hate having my picture taken.