Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

...in those days children were rather out of fashion.

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

I want to just do my job and do it well.

Every act is an act of self definition.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.