Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.