When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've...
I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or c...
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out...
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushro...
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good s...
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of...
Always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own.
Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.
Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.
Money does talk, but it has a limited vocabulary.
Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life's puzzle.
MISTEND MINDSET Manipulate suicidal thoughts to manufacture life-coping tools
ORTHODOX PARADOX Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated Kamil Ali
Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom.
Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.
No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.
What better place to kill time than a library?
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
