Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech, ' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.