My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Peter James

It's all about the money.

Joseph Jackson

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Jurgen Klopp

No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.

Natasha Friend

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Gil Atkinson

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Roland Joffe

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Anna Quindlen

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Cardinal J. Newman

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Ambrose Bierce

Our duality becomes indifference. We just want to live our lives. That's my take anyway.

James Dye

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan