Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.

The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

The worse scenario is when you do not know the purpose of your day to day existence

If you possess the basic necessities in life, there is absolutely no reason to feel any sorrows. For there is someone praying that they could have your spot.

Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't helicoptering, it's parenting.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.