He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

What do you think you're doing?

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

This is your brain on magic.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni.

I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.

There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure.

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.