If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.