Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.