I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and

 biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Richard Branson

There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.
John Gregory Dunne

Artists are supposed to stay hungry.
Michael Connelly

I'm a purple girl!
Justine Skye

Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.
David Brock

Parishes must be the safest places for a child to be.
Blase J. Cupich

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
Taylor Lautner

Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
Quavo

In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.
Miranda Seymour

Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I've met.
Michael Pitt

I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
Laurence Fishburne