I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

I suppose you’re young, ’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

I’ve met a few fans from across the world who’ve had my name tattooed on them.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.