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

It can't always be a honeymoon.

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….

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

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

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take ….

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….

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 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, ….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

Love means knowing when to let go..

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….