In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain

The question you need to ask yourself is not if you will heal, but how you will heal.

Slow down. Life is crossing the road.

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Laughter is inner jogging.