I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God’s thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.