I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.