I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

My job is to help you fall in love.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.