After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Watch my sword, not my face!'he said. 'I'm going to stab you, not bite you!

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.