A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual..

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will g….

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just….

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

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions….

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

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good we….

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, s….

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement..

Love means knowing when to let go..

It can't always be a honeymoon.

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

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation be….

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, ….

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….

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 ….

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 be….

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to….

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..

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

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 i….