The brief silence that follows is as tender as arainstorm of daisies.

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what Ishould have given her was a real journey on earth.

To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience.

I could have coached better.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

Save the child and you save the nation.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.