Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.

Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.