Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

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.

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.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

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.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.