I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.