"I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work."

“As for two years from now... who know where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.”

“Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.”

“We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.”

“Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.”

“The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.”

Source : "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

“Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.”

Source : "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.

“Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.”

“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.”