I've raised my daughter with no television.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Bursar?""Yes, Archchancellor?""You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?""Me? No, Archchancellor.""Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.