The ''good-enough marriage'' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.

In today's romantic climate, many people are plagued by what we will call "the upgrade problem". Singles constantly wonder whether there is a better match, an upgrade.

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the phone.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.