It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Life is a solitude.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg." "That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.