I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.

Chess is mental torture.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.