"We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays."

“I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'”

“Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.”

Source : Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994.

“Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.”

Source : Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature”, p.73, e-artnow

“In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.”

“I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.”

“Anything is better than stagnation.”

“...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.”

“The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.”