The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

Oh God, I'm miss­ing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. Life keeps on moving until, one day, it stops.

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

When we are present, life is also present.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.