"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry."

"A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax."

"We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet."

"Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood."

"As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look."

"I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways."

"The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!"