“I would ask, “Do you ride a bike?” I love everything about the machine – the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility – and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.”

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children’s speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

In the context of the great debates about identity politics – are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on.

Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

Children’s bodies aren’t like automobiles with the assailant’s fingerprints lingering on the wheel.

I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.

I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

As far as I’m concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.