"Of course prostitutes have babies. Where do you think traffic wardens come from?"

“It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.”

“Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.”

Source : "Yotam Ottolenghi's butternut squash and tahini spread recipe, plus batata harra" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

“Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.”

“Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.”

“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”

“I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.”

“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.”

“I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.”