Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.